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Friday, August 31, 2007

The Demo Memo: Iowa County Judge Turns Over Anti-Gay Marriage Law

What a nice surprise in my own home town today! Polk County JudgeRobert Hanson overturned an Iowa law that bans same-sex marriage. Thisafter a week of listening to conservatives pontificate about morals,this ruling couldn't have been issued at a more perfect time. Barringan injunction, which has already been requested by the County AttorneyJohn Sarcone, the ruling will allow to apply for and be grantedmarriage licenses in my home county. I have a deeply held personalbelief that all people have the right to marry the person they love.It's not up to us who we feel attracted to and fall in love with.There is plenty of evidence that heterosexual married people don't doa great job of keeping marriage sacred, so that argument is not evenvalid.